Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-28
DIR. M'GLYNN'S REPLY.
He Says that Archbishop Corrigaa has
not Acted Frankly in the Case
OF His Removal.
Services are Conducted In st. Stephens
Church but 70 Collection is taken
Up-A Report to be Made.

NEW York, Jan. 2%.-Dr. McGlynn be-
ing still confined to his room 10y illness,
dictated the following reply 10 Arch
bishop CoTrfgan: pending a fuller state
ment which I shall feel called upon to
make as soon as physically able, l desire
now to say that in the paper Of
Archbishop Corrigan published this morn
ing, certain letters and parts of letters
essential to the understanding of the csse
are omitted. did promise in
1892 to make no more irish lard
league speeches, aad when again. censure6
in 1888 for favoring an Irish revolution
in speech in behalf of the starving peo-
pie in the West of Ireland, made q: the re-
quest of united Irish county associations,
did promise 20 make no more speeches
on the Irish question, even for CHARITY,
but did not bind myself by promise to
abstain for eli time to come from pablo
speaking on political and social
subjects. With one exception,
that of my speech at the Chickerlng hall
meeting, tae reasons for which | ex-
planned at the time to the archbishop, l |
have yielded obedience in all things, !
even when I could feel that ODE
dience was not rightfully demanded, |
nor has my conduct either toward the |
archbishop himself, or toward the Roman |
authorities been OF the defiant character,
which a suppression of facts of my letters |
gives to it.
81 give to the archbishop in that part |
of my letter of December 20, which ne
has not published, good and sufficient
reasons why could not go to Rome. l !
have never retracted, nor without doing
violence to my conscience, could
retract my conviction that God made
land for the equal use of all His chi rem,
and that the laws which deny their
to great majority of men are
unjust and Injurious and ought to be
abolished.
81 am theologian enough to know that
the Catholic church has never condemned
this doctripe, as contrary to the Catholic
f 9TH. If the pope, teaching the
universal church as chief bishop
thereof, or as the term ls,
eX-cathedra, thus defining what has been
handed down from Christ and his apos-
ties, should declare that this doctrine
is contrary to the Catholic faith,
/ should then, as a Catholic repudiate
it; but am also theolOgian enough to
know what the cuurch teaches
as to limitations OF this
power OF definition, and
to know that the doctrine of
equality of human rights in land can no
more be condemned by the Catholic
church than any other truth"
DR.. McGlynn had all his personal eff
ects removed from St. Stephens
7estry to the house of his sister in
Harlem A reporter called st the resi-
tence of DR.. McGlynn's sister, and learned
hist the doctor was not confined to bed,
)ut was kept in strict seclusion. Even
newspapers were denied him, and the
)niy information he had regarding do
ngs in the outer world he obtained
rom his physician, DR.. Shradv. DR..
Henry Carey, treasurer of the NcGlynn (
und, says the fund is increasing
beyond his most sanguine ex- {
} atiOns. The parishioners of St.
St phen's church, as far as could he i
earned by the reports, hold that the
published by Archbishop Corri- ]
,an in regard to Father McGlyna's case
5 not fair exposition of ire case. |
The TACT is printed, -, that while /
he archbishop publishes i'll full his let {
ers to DIR. McGlynn, he appears to have
Ound it eXpedient to suppress portions {
If DR.. McGlynn's letters, which are said I
" friends of the deposed priest TO be Of I
in passing judgment gpon the (
controversy.
NEW DIRK, Jan. 23.-Servioes at St {
Stephens church to-day were conducted $
Is usual, excepting that no collections i
we're made. Considerable feeling was {
Iroused by the fact that policemen in
Inform had been posted on the /
street and others in citizens clothes
inside the church. a committee ,
If DR.. McGlynn's Pensioners met to-day ]
md formulated report which viii be (
presented to the meeting tomorrow I
.vening on the steps of St. Stephens, if
he basement hall is forbidden them by
Dr.. MCGlynn's successor.